CODEWITHSUNDEEP
xhtmlwicketpanel
amango
amango

Reputation: 65

How to get rendered XHTML from a Wicket panel

Users of my Wicket application should be able to edit some of the panels' output (X)HTML. There will be a button or link on each panel that, when clicked, will get the rendered content and use/open an editor such as TinyMCE.

I think I want some sort of getRenderedXTML() method for the panel, but have no clue how to get the rendered output programmatically. How can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 280

Answers (1)

Don Roby
Don Roby

Reputation: 41145

You can likely get the generated html just before it's sent to the browser, but this is a bad approach as reconnecting the edited html back the the generating fragments will be painful if not impossible.

Rather than actually trying to edit the dynamic markup, make the user-editable stuff part of the data. Show it in a Label and use setEscapeModelStrings(false) to allow the label to properly render the html fragment. On click of your link, replace that label with a textarea with tinymce behavior attached.

There is a some tinymce support in wicketstuff-core that can help with this, and this Wicket by Example article shows a bit of how to use it, though it may be a bit out-of-date, and references document locations no longer available.

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions